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Stefan De Young

Also Known As	N/A
Year of Graduation	2006-07
Institution	University of Waterloo
Current Occupation	Student
Former Positions	Mission Commander, Webmaster

Stefan De Young was a student of Lisgar Collegiate Institute and a three-year member of the OCESS. He was one of the two Mission Commanders for the 2006-07 year, and was Habitat Commander for Coronis. He is now studying Astrophysics at the University of Waterloo, and aspires to fly in space. He is currently a member of the Waterloo Space Society and the Waterloo Astronaut Training Corps.

Stefan acquired a coop job in Ottawa at Sander Geophysics Ltd. for the 2009-10 school year and began participating in regular Friday worksessions. During that time, he presented the OCESS at the Innaugural Canadian Space Leaders' Roundtable at an event leading up to the 2009 Canadian Space Summit at Royal Military College. Following that presentation, he began preparing promotional materials designed to spread Spacesim to other cities.

Participation in the OCESS while at Lisgar

Being mightily impressed by the Planetarium presentation he encountered at the 2003 Grade Eight Night, Stefan contrived to join Spacesim during his Grade 9 year. Unfortunately, a prior commitment to violin lessons caused Stefan to leave Spacesim after only a month.

Having met hereditary Simmie Kevan Adlard over the course of the most assinine BTT course offered at Lisgar, Stefan returned to Spacesim in 2004-05. Feeling that Spacesim lacked leadership, Stefan applied for the position of Mission Commander, but deferred to the seniority of Crystal Xiao and Stephen Smith.

The following year, Stefan engaged himself in the roles of Quartermaster and Webmaster. He displayed lackluster performance in the former, and made an ass of himself in the latter. Feeling depressed about the lack of updates coming from the top of the top-down organisation, in a fit of pique, Stefan shut down spacesim.org briefly after a protracted rant on the forums. This course of action has been described as "the most bad-ass thing" by current webmaster Ben Paul. Stefan thinks it was immature and genuinely stupid.

In his Grade 12 year, Stefan was co-Mission Commander with Brian Foo. He attempted to institute several reforms into the Spacesim architechture including changing the overall higherarchy to extend more power to the Educational branch of Spacesim (EEPs and Planetariums) and his New Deal for Task Forces, which was never popular.

Astronaut Roles

Stefan served as an Astronaut on three Main Missions.

Mars

During the 2004-05 year, only two people requested to be astronauts. Jonathan Scothorn and Stefan were asked to fill out the crew, as having a crew of two would not be enough to man the Habitat effectively. And so, Stefan De Young, Mor Levy, Songyan Cai, and Jonathan Scothorn set off in 2005 for the red planet.

Titan

In the year 2006, Stefan De Young applied to be an astronaut for that year’s mission to Titan. Not only did he apply for that position, but for the first few months of the scholastic year, it was widely assumed that Stefan would occupy the role of Habitat Commander due to the unwillingness of either Mission Commander to fulfill that duty. Stephen Smith eventually took command.

Stefan’s role on the 2006 mission was to have been robotics specialist. Unfortunately, the robot, Robbie, was found to be defective and was not brought along on the mission. Stefan then became the Tech Specialist.

Borrelly

Stefan commanded the 2006-07 mission to Borrelly.

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 [[Category:Members|De Young, Stefan]]
-'''Stefan De Young''' was a student of [[Lisgar Collegiate Institute]] and a three-year member of the [[OCESS]]. He was one of the two [[Mission Commanders]] for the [[2006-07]] year, and was [[Habitat Commander]] for [[Coronis]]. He is now studying Physics at the University of Waterloo, and aspires to fly in space.
+'''Stefan De Young''' was a student of [[Lisgar Collegiate Institute]] and a three-year member of the [[OCESS]]. He was one of the two [[Mission Commanders]] for the [[2006-07]] year, and was [[Habitat Commander]] for [[Coronis]]. He is now studying Astrophysics at the University of Waterloo, and aspires to fly in space. He is currently a member of the Waterloo Space Society and the Waterloo Astronaut Training Corps.
-==Meeting the OCESS==
+Stefan acquired a coop job in Ottawa at Sander Geophysics Ltd. for the [[2009-10]] school year and began participating in regular Friday worksessions. During that time, he presented the OCESS at the Innaugural Canadian Space Leaders' Roundtable at an event leading up to the 2009 Canadian Space Summit at Royal Military College. Following that presentation, he began preparing promotional materials designed to spread Spacesim to other cities.
-Stefan's involvement with the OCESS began in Gr. 8 when he encountered the OCESS [[Planetarium]] in the Cafeteria at Lisgar during the Gr. 8 night to encourage students to go to Lisgar. Stefan was thoroughly pleased that there was a Space and Space Science club at the school he was planning to attend, and so, he joined the OCESS in his Gr. 9 year, that being the [[2003-04]] year. Unfortunately, violin lessons on Friday evenings made going to worksessions very difficult, and Stefan was forced to drop out of the organisation.
+==Participation in the OCESS while at Lisgar==
+Being mightily impressed by the Planetarium presentation he encountered at the 2003 Grade Eight Night, Stefan contrived to join Spacesim during his Grade 9 year. Unfortunately, a prior commitment to violin lessons caused Stefan to leave Spacesim after only a month.
-==Return to the OCESS==
+Having met hereditary Simmie [[Kevan Adlard]] over the course of the most assinine BTT course offered at Lisgar, Stefan returned to Spacesim in [[2004-05]]. Feeling that Spacesim lacked leadership, Stefan applied for the position of Mission Commander, but deferred to the seniority of [[Crystal Xiao]] and [[Stephen Smith]].
-The following year, having stopped taking violin lessons, Stefan rejoined the club with the intent of thoroughly enjoying himself. During the year, Stefan found that the club, despite the best of intentions, was disorganised and lacked a program that effectively educated its members about Space and Science, or even got them interested in such things. To attempt to right that wrong and prevent any newcomers from feeling disappointed, Stefan applied for the position of [[Mission Commander]] at the end of the 2004-2005 year.
+The following year, Stefan engaged himself in the roles of Quartermaster and Webmaster. He displayed lackluster performance in the former, and made an ass of himself in the latter. Feeling depressed about the lack of updates coming from the top of the top-down organisation, in a fit of pique, Stefan shut down spacesim.org briefly after a protracted rant on the forums. This course of action has been described as "the most bad-ass thing" by current webmaster [[Ben Paul]]. Stefan thinks it was immature and genuinely stupid.
-==Becoming Mission Commander (or not)==
+In his Grade 12 year, Stefan was co-[[Mission Commander]] with Brian Foo. He attempted to institute several reforms into the Spacesim architechture including [[Stefan's Proposal to Change the Hierarchy | changing the overall higherarchy]] to extend more power to the Educational branch of Spacesim (EEPs and Planetariums) and his [[New Deal for Task Forces]], which was never popular.
-At the end of the [[2004-05]] year, three people applied for the position of Mission Commander. These three were [[Stephen Smith]], [[Crystal Xiao]], and Stefan De Young. It was at the [[Year-End Barbeque]] that the decision was made. Dr. Magwood asked Stefan to defer to Stephen and Crystals’ seniority and throw the race. He did. But he did so with the intent of running again the following year. His dream of the perfect Sim would not die.
+==Astronaut Roles==
+Stefan served as an Astronaut on three [[Mission | Main Missions]].
-==Being an Astronaut==
-Stefan De Young has served on three [[Mission]]s as well as several training missions.
-===Venus===
-Stefan has visited Venus on two training missions, both [[Mission Alphas| Mission Alpha]].
 ===Mars===
 During the [[2004-05]] year, only two people requested to be astronauts. [[Jonathan Scothorn]] and Stefan were asked to fill out the crew, as having a crew of two would not be enough to man the [[Habitat]] effectively. And so, Stefan De Young, [[Mor Levy]], [[Songyan Cai]], and Jonathan Scothorn set off in 2005 for the red planet.
-===Titan, moon of Saturn===
+===Titan===
-In the year 2006, Stefan De Young applied to be an astronaut for that year’s mission to [[Titan]]. Not only did he apply for that position, but for the first few months of the scholastic year, it was widely assumed that Stefan would occupy the role of [[Habitat Commander]] due to the unwillingness of either Mission Commander to fulfill that duty. [[Stephen Smith]] eventually decided to take on the job, and Stefan was given the rank of Lieutenant for the duration of the mission.
+In the year 2006, Stefan De Young applied to be an astronaut for that year’s mission to [[Titan]]. Not only did he apply for that position, but for the first few months of the scholastic year, it was widely assumed that Stefan would occupy the role of [[Habitat Commander]] due to the unwillingness of either Mission Commander to fulfill that duty. [[Stephen Smith]] eventually took command.
 Stefan’s role on the 2006 mission was to have been robotics specialist. Unfortunately, the robot, [[Robbie]], was found to be defective and was not brought along on the mission. Stefan then became the Tech Specialist.
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 Stefan commanded the [[2006-07]] mission to [[Borrelly]].
-==Being a Director (or many)==
-Stefan was, during the 2005-06 year, a director. Or rather, he occupied several directorates.
-===PR Director===
-{{main|PR Director}}
-Stefan De Young revived the position of PR Director, that position having been empty for many years, at the beginning of the 2005 scholastic year in order to better promote the club. His only qualification was his charisma and his only job experience, besides experience in drama, was the masterpiece of an assembly that he wrote, directed, emceed, and acted in. Stefan’s main contribution to PR in the 2005-06 year was his [[Week of Hype]] that ran near the beginning of the year. The PR Department of Spacesim shortly afterwards fell into decay and disuse, and most further PR endeavours were taken on by Mission Commander Crystal Xiao.
-===Webmaster===
-{{main|Webmaster}}
-'''See also [http://www.spacesim.org Spacesim.org]'''
-Stefan De Young revived the position of Webmaster, that position having been empty during the 2004-05 year, at the beginning of the 05-06 year. Despite difficulties along the way, Stefan succeeded in reorganizing the website into a more efficient format and created a contract between Mission Commander and Webmaster binding them to a bi-monthly update schedule at the least.
-====Quest for E-Gality====
-Stefan took issue with the fact that the Mission Commanders of 2005-06 did not provide him with any material for updates, and pursued an aggressive campaign on the forums to have the Commanders give him what he wanted. Stefan shut down the website briefly, as he had been threatening to do for several weeks in advance (effectively using it as a hostage-type bargaining chip), but [[Dr. Magwood]] intervened, and the website did not stay down for long.
-Stefan met with Mission Commander Stephen Smith, who reconciled him with the post of Webmaster, and thereafter made an effort to supply more information to fill the webpages.
-Later, as Mission Commander, Stefan would realise how thoughtless he had been, as he suffered through many of the same problems that Stephen and Crystal had, including forgetting to update the website consistently. He eventually asked for and gave permission to [[Nevin Hotson]], the Webmaster for [[2006-07]] to update the website with whatever content he could come up with.
-===Office Director===
-{{main|Office Director}}
-The position of [[Office Director]] was created in 05-06 by Stefan De Young to both explain why he possessed a key to the [[office]] and to make sure that cleanliness was enforced.
-===Interim TFC===
-{{main|Task Forces}}
-Stefan created the “New Deal for Taskforces” towards the end of 2006 in an attempt to make the club more efficient and conducive to work. [[Alex Foo]] was selected to occupy the role of TFC for the remainder of the 2006 year, while Stefan was appointed interim TFC in order to first introduce the club to the system and second to acquaint Alex with its inner workings.
-Unfortunately the "New Deal" was a flop, and Alex never got his chance.
-==Policy Nagger==
-Stefan has developed a habit of trying to make the Mission Commanders follow his ideas and lead. This is not his job, and he knows it, but Stefan cannot rest until he feels that Spacesim is as good as it can be. He anticipates many sleepless nights until he graduates, and beyond.
-==Becoming Mission Commander Mk. II==
-It was Stefan’s dream to become one of the Mission Commanders for the 2006-07 year, and he applied when the application forms were released.
-==Became Mission Commander!==
-Stefan finally succeeded in becoming mission commander in his final year of high school.
-==Proposal to Change the Hierarchy==
-{{main|Stefan's Proposal to Change the Hierarchy}}
-Stefan created the Proposal at the end of his term as Mission Commander, in an effort to fix many of the problems he saw with the way Spacesim was run, including the way he had run it.
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